Through the white nights hub, myself, Arthur Mostovoy (head of studio for Larian games Saint Petersburg), Pavel Agoshkov (Founder of Playtagon), my former colleague Sabrina Carmona (EP of Farm Heroes Saga at King) and the moderator Max Fomichev had a chat about how we are managing our teams during the COVID-19 era with the challenges … Continue reading Working remotely Fireside Chat – May 2020
Following up on the Google mentoring program that we started back in November 2019, we got together as mentors with our start ups again, to see their progress, how was the program influence their production and attend a virtual graduation ceremony that was touching and wholesome. Proud of the work those peeps have produced and … Continue reading Google for Startups Warsaw – Graduation – May 2020
Was a lot of fun doing a Q&A session @DevGAMM We chatted about Live ops and answered viewers questions! looking forward to doing that again IRL
Had a delightful time chatting with the students Breda University of Applied Sciences in the Netherlands about game design! There were over 150 in attendance at some point, really hope to get to meet you guys in person soon! If there's a silver-lining to all of this is to be able to reach so many … Continue reading Talk at Breda university of applied sciences – May 2020
It was a lot of fun to join forces with the devtodev peeps again and do my talk on Japanese Live ops, lots of fun people in attendance including the very flattering artwork that captured some key phrases from the talk too. Always happy to work with those peeps, going to collaborate with the again … Continue reading DevToDev Webinar, April 2020
With the ongoing COVID19 situation Pocket Gamer Connects went digital, and so did my talk on effective prototyping. It was interesting that conferences have turned into webinar style allows for interactions with attendees through chats and follow ups on other software. Great to catch up with loads of people, I miss them and looking forward … Continue reading Talk at Pocket Gamer Digital – April 2020
This month I gave a 2 weeks game design 101 course at Future games in Stockholm. Future games is the second best game development school in the world, and it was my absolute pleasure to become a course leader for game design at the school. Due to the COVID19 pandemic, this was also the first … Continue reading Game design 101 course at Future Games – Stockholm March 2020
Always a pleasure to speak at White nights, did a presentation on effective prototyping that can be applied to a wide variety of projects across platforms
2019 is a year where the industry is pivoting. From subscriptions becoming common place, to the death of loot crates to the launch of streaming services to the sunset of the current generation of consoles, the industry is changing yet again and this was the year of preparing for an exciting future. Also a lot … Continue reading Fawzi Mesmar’s Top 15 games of the year 2019
For the second time this year, I get to help out gaming start ups and independent developers realize their visions by participating in mentoring sessions about game design for loads of companies in Poland and Eastern Europe as part of the Google Start ups accelerator program.
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